After Hurricane Ida, a man in southeastern Louisiana may have died from a crocodile attack in the flood. According to reports, a woman called the authorities and said that her husband had been attacked by a large crocodile. According to reports, she helped him, supported him on some steps, and took the family canoe to a higher place, only to turn around to see that he was gone.
The San Tammany Sheriff’s Office said they received a call from a woman saying that her 71-year-old husband was hit by a large crocodile while wading in the flood after Hurricane Ida that hit Louisiana on Sunday. Attack. .
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The woman said that she was in their house when she heard the commotion outside. According to WDSU in New Orleans, at that time, she saw her husband arguing with the big crocodile. She pulled him to a safe place on some steps, and then went into the house to retrieve the first aid kit for his severely injured arm. She called the authorities and drove the boat to a higher place. When I found him, he was gone.
Since that call, the sheriff’s office has been looking for the man, but they are out of luck.
To date, Hurricane Ida has caused two deaths, including one from the Ascension parish who died when a tree fell on their house, and a man trying to drive through the floodwater on Interstate 10 in Lakeview When he drowned and died.
The parish of Saint Tammany borders Lake Pontchartrain in the northeast and is the western border of Mississippi. It is home to the towns of Slidell, Mandeville, Madisonville and the Pearl River. On Sunday night, as Hurricane Ida spread inland, the diocese endured hurricane-intensity winds.
Ada hit the Port of Folchon in La Forche Parish in southern Louisiana at around noon on Sunday, becoming a powerful Category 4 storm. The storm brought dazzling heavy rain, and it seemed to move west of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain until a fast jog eastward on Sunday afternoon.
Ada’s squalls hit New Orleans with great force in the afternoon and evening, causing a transmission tower to fall into the Mississippi River. Next, the city fell into a power outage.
This happened during one of the most powerful storms in the history of the region, when winds of 120 miles per hour passed over Crescent City. This includes Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall 16 years ago.
Hurricane Ida is still raging across the country, but its wind speed has dropped to 35 miles per hour, and will reduce to a tropical depression in northern Mississippi by Monday night.
The governors of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama all declared a state of emergency before Ida landed, and several parishes in southeastern Louisiana were also forcibly evacuated. The city of New Orleans, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, did not order a mandatory evacuation because the mayor of the city said it was “too late” by Friday night.
